| Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) | |
|---|---|
| Developed by | Australian Bureau of Meteorology and CSIRO |
| Latest release | 1.2 December 13, 2013 |
| Type of format | Irrigation Informatics |
| Extended from | XML |
Water Data Transfer Format (WDTF) is a data delivery standard implemented by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) that was jointly developed with the CSIRO.[1] The standard, released in 2009, specifies both the format of and the techniques used to deliver Australian water data measurements to the BoM.[2]
The Water Act 2007 (Cth) requires some private organisations and government agencies in Australia that collect water data and to deliver it to the BoM according to the WDTF standard.[3]
An external meteorological data source that delivers data in WDTF-compliant forms is the CSIRO Land & Water's Automatic Weatherstation Network.[4] Data from this weather station network can be viewed in a web browser, downloaded at text values in CSV format, downloaded in a condensed XML format for machine-to-machine communications, or downloaded as WDTF-compliant data.
The use of WDTF is an example of work in the field of irrigation informatics.
